Posts Tagged ‘new piece’

#Armada, an international group of composers writing music collaboratively via Twitter, just completed and released the score to their first piece. I’m attached to it, because the project was my idea, but it features another composer from LA who has been interviewed here on the site, Dale Trumbore. This first piece, which is for solo piano, will also be performed in LA early in the new year, although details about that are forthcoming.

Basically, whoever starts the piece writes one bar, then tags someone on Twitter to write the next bar, and so forth, until someone decides to use their tag to insert a final double bar line. The tags get crazy. Here’s an example:

@DennisTobenski g mel min {RH: scale->A6toBb3, 8th/(8th)3lets/16th/(16th)5lets| LH: seq of 5ths & 4ths end on G3/D3, all (1/4)3lets} #armada

— J MaddoxTang (@joetang) November 4, 2011

This piece started way back in July, and 29 composers participated. The score and a MIDI version are available at #Armada’s site, hashtagarmada.com. Check it out!